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The Central Intelligence Agency's Central Intelligence Bulletin for 14 March 1958 is a classified daily intelligence brief on world events, approved for release in 2019. It covers Soviet calls for a foreign ministers' meeting before a summit, Soviet cargo ships possibly bound for Indonesia, and strained Yugoslav-Soviet relations. It also covers unidentified submarine contacts in the western Atlantic, a planned amphibious attack in Central Sumatra, and Middle East disputes. Other items are British troop cuts in Germany and Colombia's elections. It contains no UFO material.
Approved for Release: 2019/08/20 C02066866I I I Y 1 I. THE COMMUNIST BLOC USS1} Actively Calling for Foreign Ministers‘ Session Soviet party chief Khrushchev told Polish jour- nalists on 10 March that a foreign ministers‘ meeting is a "better" way to prepare for summit talks than "secret" negotiations through diplomatic channels. He said Mos- cow is looking to "public opinion" to force the West into a heads-of-government conference, and argued that the progress of a foreign ministers‘ meeting can be "fol- lowed by the public." Khrushchev reiterated, however, that the foreign ministers should confine themselves to the preparation of an agenda and other procedural mat- ters for a heads-of-government conference. Premier Bulganin‘s letters to President Eisenhower in January and February had flatly opposed a meeting of foreign ministers on the grounds that it might raise "addi- tional obstacles" to summit talks. After the West ap- peared willing in early February to prepare for a summit meeting either through diplomatic channels or in a for- eign ministers‘ session, Moscow in its aide-memoire of 28’F-ebruary said it would accept the principle of such a n".ee'cing in response to Western "wishes." In his inter- view on 10 March Khrushchev rationalized the Soviet about-face by maintaining that, if a foreign ministers’ meeting fails, the Soviet Government will have been proven "right" in pointing out the "miserable chances" of this method of preparation for a heads-of-government meeting. Moscow almost certainly will exploit the Khrushchev interview as a concession to Western views and as a demon- stration of the Soviet Union's flexibility and interest in bring- ing about a summit conference. \ \ .1; F’ I E,EmE£BFN_1[ ‘L 14 Mar 58 Approved for Release: 2019/0B720*c62o_e€86e Page 1
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FOIA release, from the cia-readingroom collection. The PDF is mirrored here; the original link is above. 25 pages are in the text index: search them above, or from the library's search.